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ENGL 057 PO - Modern British and Irish Poetry
CrsNo ENGL057 PO
When Offered: Last offered fall 2011.
Instructor(s): K. Dettmar
Readings in the most significant British and Irish poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries, including the poetry of Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Thomas Kinsella, Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Maebh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon and Carol Ann Duffy.
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ENGL 058 PO - Native American Women Writers
CrsNo ENGL058 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2014.
Instructor(s): V.Thomas
This course focuses on issues of memory and identity in writing by indigenous women writers in the Americas. Readings will focus on memoir, poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, including works by Leslie Silko, Paula Gunn Allen, Joy Harjo, Louise Erdrich, Wendy Rose, Gloria Bird and others. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 064A PO - Creative Writing: Fiction
CrsNo ENGL064A PO
When Offered: Each fall.
Instructor(s): J. Lethem
Practice in a literary form, with some attention to technical theory and to the creative process. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission.
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ENGL 064B PO - Creative Writing: Poetry
CrsNo ENGL064B PO
When Offered: Each spring.
Instructor(s): C. Rankine
Practice in a literary form, with some attention to technical theory and to the creative process. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission.
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ENGL 064D PO - Elements of Creative Writing: Literary Non-Fiction
CrsNo ENGL064D PO
When Offered: Last offered spring 2013.
Instructor(s): V. Klinkenborg
Practice in a literary form, with some attention to technical theory and to the creative process.
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ENGL 066 PO - Early Modern Poetry and Poetics
CrsNo ENGL066 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
This course examines the poetry and poetic practices of the English Renaissance, emphasizing the politics of form and questions of labor, education, gender, and theology. Readings include classical and humanist poetic theory (Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Erasmus, etc.) and a wide range of poets, including Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Jonson. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 067 PO - Literary Interpretation
CrsNo ENGL067 PO
When Offered: Each semester.
Instructor(s): Staff
Training in certain historical, theoretical and methodological dimensions of literary study in relation to a topic chosen by the professor. Special attention to close textual analysis and to writing effectively about literature.
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ENGL 073 PO - Topics in Text and Performance
CrsNo ENGL073 PO
When Offered: Spring 2015.
Instructor(s): Staff
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ENGL 074 PO - British Novel, Behn to Austen
CrsNo ENGL074 PO
When Offered: Spring 2015.
Instructor(s): A. Kunin
The British novel from its beginnings in the prose narratives of the late 17th century to its form in the early 19th century. Readings from Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Goldsmith, Sterne, Burney, Cleland, Radcliffe, Austen and others.
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ENGL 075 PO - British Novel II
CrsNo ENGL075 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): Staff
Survey of the Victorian novel, with particular attention to class, gender and genre. Primary texts by such authors as Gaskell, Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontes, Eliot, Collins, Braddon, Hardy, James, Stoker, Stevenson, Gissing and Conrad.
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ENGL 086 PO - Poetry Movements since the 1950s
CrsNo ENGL086 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): C. Rankine
This course will be a survey of the major poetic movements in the last half-century. Poets will include Ashbery, O’Hara, Ginsberg, Wright, Rich, Lorde, Creeley, Duncan and others. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 087F PO - Writing: Theories/Processes/Pedagogies
CrsNo ENGL087F PO
When Offered: Each fall.
Instructor(s): D. Regaignon; P. Bromley
Theoretical grounding in the writing process, as well as in teaching and tutoring. Students will undertake a major research project, investigating some aspect of the writing process, writing in a particular discipline, or tutoring writing. Full course.
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ENGL 087H PO - Writing: Theories/Processes/Pedagogies
CrsNo ENGL087H PO
When Offered: Each fall.
Instructor(s): D. Regaignon; P. Bromley
Writing: Theories, Processes, Pedagogies. Theoretical grounding in the writing process, as well as in teaching and tutoring. Students will undertake a major research project, investigating some aspect of the writing process, writing in a particular discipline, or tutoring writing. Half-credit. For Writing Fellows only.
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ENGL 090 PO - Medieval and Renaissance Literature
CrsNo ENGL090 PO
When Offered: Last offered fall 2012.
Instructor(s): Staff
The Middle Ages and Renaissance form the buried foundation to all later literary endeavor. This class frontloads a number of ideas and events that are important for understanding the discipline. Organized in segments, it will cover nationhood, authorship, literary fame, the evolution of genre, post-coloniality and climate change.
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ENGL 091 PO - Enlightment, Romantic and Victorian Literature
CrsNo ENGL091 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2014.
Instructor(s): Staff
Close study in historical context of selected works by such 18th- and 19th-century writers as Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Austen, Wordsworth, Keats, Bronte, Browning, Dickens, G. Eliot, Hardy and Yeats.
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ENGL 093 PO - Rock and Roll Writing
CrsNo ENGL093 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2014.
Instructor(s): K. Dettmar
Combining study and practice, we’ll read some of rock’s most popular and vital writers (Bangs, Marcus, Powers, Willis, Klosterman) and produce writing in a number of common genres of rock writing. Five graded assignments of varying lengths. Writing workshop format. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 094 PO - Pre-Contact to Civil War U.S. Literature
CrsNo ENGL094 PO
When Offered: Spring 2014.
Instructor(s): K. Tompkins
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ENGL 095 PO - Survey of American Literature II
CrsNo ENGL095 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk
Survey of U.S. fiction and poetry from the antebellum period to the present. Will touch on the emergence of realism, naturalism, modernism, post-modernism and the avant-garde. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 097 PO - Religion, Literature, Environment
CrsNo ENGL097 PO
When Offered: Spring 2014.
Instructor(s): C.Winiarski
This course will consider religion and literature as sources and as antagonists of environmental consciousness and ethics. We will analyze representations of the environment in Jewish, Christian, ancient Greek, and Native-American religions and then consider how these were inherited, resisted, and transvalued in the literature of early modern England and modern America. Readings from the Bible, Ovid, Native-American creation stories, Shakespeare, Milton, Cavendish, Muir, Carson, Snyder, Silko. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 102A SC - Survey to 1865: American Literature
CrsNo ENGL102A SC
An examination of the literature of America’s beginnings, culminating with the period of the American Renaissance. Using novels, poems, essays, personal narratives and short stories, we will probe the development of America’s national literary sensibility. Writers to be read in this course will include the Puritans, Jefferson, Paine, Wheatley, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Douglass and others.
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ENGL 102B SC - Survey 1865-Present: American Literature
CrsNo ENGL102B SC
See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 103 PO - Literature of the Enlightenment
CrsNo ENGL103 PO
When Offered: Fall 2015.
Instructor(s): S. Raff
Reason and unreason, ethics and aesthetics, high minds and low bodies in poetry, drama and prose by such writers as Dryden, Locke, Rochester, Congreve, Pope, Swift, Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, Reynolds, Burke and Sheridan, with some attention to French authors such as Voltaire.
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ENGL 104 PO - Literature of Romantic Period
CrsNo ENGL104 PO
When Offered: Fall 2015.
Instructor(s): A. Reed
The major poets—Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats—with some attention to both fictional and nonfictional prose.
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ENGL 105 PO - Literature of Victorian Period
CrsNo ENGL105 PO
When Offered: Spring 2014.
Instructor(s): D. Regaignon
Studies classic works from the VIctorian period, when literature was popular entertainment, political act, and spiritual guide. Heart of the course will be sustained close reading of nineteenth-century texts with attention to the conditions of their initial reception. Historical contexts will include consideration of: visual culture; publication history; and the geopolitics of class, gender, sexuality, race, and empire. Authors may include the Brontes, the Brownings, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Tennyson, Trollope, and others.
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ENGL 107 PO - William Blake
CrsNo ENGL107 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2014.
Instructor(s): P. Mann
Studies in Blake’s visionary poetry and painting, with special focus on “illuminated books” as both verbal and visual art.
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ENGL 109 PO - Introduction to Performance Studies: Theatre and the Everyday
CrsNo ENGL109 PO
When Offered: Spring 2015.
Instructor(s): K. Tompkins
This class will introduce students to the major writing in performance studies, which fuses the study of the theatre with the study of everyday life. We will read theory, study plays (starting in the early American period) and watch contemporary performance. An emphasis on queer and critical race theory will be present in the readings. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 112 PO - Early Modern Romance
CrsNo ENGL112 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
Spanning prose, poetry and drama of the early modern period, the genre of “romance” describes perplexing, digressive narratives that revolve around cross-dressing, incest, the return of the dead, and the dissolution of the family. We will read from Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Mary Wroth’s Urania, and Shakespeare’s Pericles, Cymbeline, and Winter’s Tale. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 114 PO - Asian/American Forms
CrsNo ENGL114 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2014.
Instructor(s): J. Jeon
Asian/American Forms. This course examines Asian/American literary texts that exhibit self-consciousness about their own formal characteristics as a means of engaging with and interrogating social and racial formations. Readings will include both texts written Asian Americans and texts that address Asianness in an American context. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 116 PO - Excess: Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis
CrsNo ENGL116 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2014.
Instructor(s): P. Mann
Interdisciplinary study of key “limit-texts,” chiefly in the area of sexual extremity. Readings from Sade, Masoch, Freud, Deleuze, Kafka and others; films by Pasolini and Oshima. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.
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ENGL 117 PO - Poststructuralism
CrsNo ENGL117 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2014.
Instructor(s): P. Mann
Readings in Derrida, Lacan, Foucault, Kristeva, Irigaray, Deleuze, Barthes, Lyotard, de Man, et al. Some familiarity with continental philosophy or critical theory recommended. Spring 2011; offered alternate years.
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ENGL 118 PO - The Nature of Narrative of Fictions and Films
CrsNo ENGL118 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2015.
Instructor(s): A. Reed
Investigates narrative as a fundamental mode of understanding and organizing human experience. Practice of storytelling in writers like Calvino, Diderot, Kundera, Borges, Proust, Kafka, Dante, Sterne, Woolf and Sartre; and in filmmakers like Lynch, Hitchcock, Roeg, Malick and Allen. Theories of narrative from Aristotle through Freud to Barthes.
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ENGL 121 PO - Whitman, Dickinson and Poe
CrsNo ENGL121 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2015.
Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk
Primarily studies in the poetry and selected prose of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson; the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe; and relevant literary criticism. Special attention to publishing histories, social contexts, relationships to other writers in the 19th century and influence on the development of American poetics. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
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ENGL 121 SC - Milton: Nature, Knowledge, Creation
CrsNo ENGL121 SC
See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 122 AF - Healing Narratives
CrsNo ENGL122 AF
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2014.
Instructor(s): V. Thomas
This course examines how African Diaspora writers, filmmakers and critical theorists respond to individual and collective trauma, and how their works address questions of healing mind, body and spirit. We will take particular interest in Black feminist theory, the body as a construct of racial ideology and the business of remedy. Prerequisites: An English, Africana Studies, Black Studies or Asian American Studies course.
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ENGL 123 PO - The Holocaust in Literature and Film
CrsNo ENGL123 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2015.
Instructor(s): P. Mann
Close study of novels, poetry and film on the shoah. Secondary readings in historical and philosophical texts.
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ENGL 124 AF - AfroFuturisms
CrsNo ENGL124 AF
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): V. Thomas
AfroFuturism articulates futuristic and Afro Punk cultural resistance, and radical subversions of racism, sexism, liberal humanism and (neo)colonialism. Such texts also recall that Africans were not only subjected to and forced to maintain the technologies of enslavement, but were regarded as technology. AF engages music, visual arts, cyberculture, science and philosophy.
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ENGL 125C AF - Introduction to African-American Literature: Middle Passage to Civil War
CrsNo ENGL125C AF
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2014.
Instructor(s): V. Thomas
This interdisciplinary course presents an overview of African American literary tradition from African retentions, slave narratives and oral tradition, through memoir, autobiography, anti-lynching and revolutionary protest tracts, essays, poetry, criticism and the beginnings of the Black novel in English.
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ENGL 125D AF - Literature and Film of African Diaspora
CrsNo ENGL125D AF
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): V. Thomas
This course investigates the major critical issues and expressive methods of African Diaspora film. We will address aesthetics and representations of race, class, and gender, and resonances between written and visual texts in which artists theorize the African Diaspora.
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ENGL 125DLAF - Lit/Film of African Diaspora Lab
CrsNo ENGL125DLAF
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): V. Thomas
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ENGL 126 PO - California Poetry
CrsNo ENGL126 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2015.
Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk
Considers the variety of myths, histories, imaginations and products (literary, cultural, material) that are produced or revised by California poetry in 20th century. Readings may include work by Rexroth, Oppen, Miles, Jeffers, Miller, Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Spicer, Hejinian, Hillman, Hass and others.
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ENGL 128 PO - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
CrsNo ENGL128 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2014.
Instructor(s): J. McDonie
This course serves as an introduction to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
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ENGL 129 PO - Spaces of Cultural Resistance
CrsNo ENGL129 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2015.
Instructor(s): V. Thomas
This interdisciplinary course focuses on postcolonial literature, film, spatial theory and the means of imagining a successful post-capitalist politics of decolonization, cultural reinvention and community. We will foreground texts that invite discussion of race, gender, sex and class in the context of globalization, new technologies, cultural dislocation, cataclysm and diaspora.
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ENGL 129 SC - Possible Worlds: Lit, Sci, Games
CrsNo ENGL129 SC
See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 132 AF - Black Queer Narrative and Theories
CrsNo ENGL132 AF
Instructor(s): L. Harris
This course examines the cultural productions of Black queer artists and scholars whose focus on race and sexuality at the intersections of Black, feminist and queer history and thought shape the content and form of a Black queer narrative in the latter 20th century (approximately 1985-2005).
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ENGL 132 PO - Contemporary Speculative Fiction
CrsNo ENGL132 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2014.
Instructor(s): J. Jeon
Contemporary Speculative Fiction. This course examines the genre of speculative fiction with a particular emphasis on alternative histories and stories of imagined futures. Although this genre has generally been associated with Science Fiction, recent writers have appropriated these modes for what is sometimes regarded as “serious” literature, thereby undermining distinctions between low-brow and high-brow cultural production. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 134 BK - Harlem Renaissance
CrsNo ENGL134 BK
Instructor(s): V. Thomas
This course is a survey of African American literature and culture produced during or linked to the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. Central to the course is an ongoing survey and analysis of popular cultural forms such as the blues, social dance, film, and musical theater.
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ENGL 135 PO - The “American” Century
CrsNo ENGL135 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2014.
Instructor(s): J. Jeon
The “American” Century. This course examines twentieth-=century representations of America by both American and non-American writers, thinkers, and artists in literature, criticism, and other visual modes. A heuristic device, all texts in this class have the world “American” in their titles. The course will investigate the changing meaning of the word as the United States emerges globally as an economic, cultural, and military power. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 138 PO - Henry James on Art and Society
CrsNo ENGL138 PO
When Offered: Offered occasionally; next offered fall 2014.
Instructor(s): A. Kunin
Henry James on Art and Society. How does art make life? How do you use a novel to love the world? We will try to answer these questions by studying James’s novels and tales. We will also consider some writings by Eliot, Adams, Wilde, Wharton, and William James. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 140 PO - Literature of Incarceration
CrsNo ENGL140 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2014.
Instructor(s): V. Thomas
This course investigates the world’s largest Prison Industrial Complex as narrated from the inside out. We focus on memoirs, novels, essays and poetry by and about inmates and critical writings on the prison system. Some argue that it’s a system of “corrections” and paying a debt to society; others view it as the New Slavery.
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ENGL 141 PO - Shakespearean Drama
CrsNo ENGL141 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
Shakespeare and the Technology of Dramatic Invention. Drawing on the theories and technologies of early modern performance, this class will consider how Shakespeare’s language both grounds and complicates questions central to the intersecting histories of rhetoric and theatrical production, including questions of gender, education, class, race and sexuality. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 142 PO - Shakespeare’s Poetic Practices
CrsNo ENGL142 PO
When Offered: Fall 2014.
Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
This course will consider Shakespeare’s practices in the context of classical and early modern poetic theory to investigate Shakespeare’s art objects and Shakespeare as art object. Possible reading includes Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Shakespeare’s poetry and selected plays (Titus, Love’s Labour, Taming, Tempest). Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only.
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ENGL 143 PO - American Poetic Modernisms
CrsNo ENGL143 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk
Readings in a diverse body of American poetry identified as high-, late-, alternative- or early-“modernist.” Premised on the notion of multiple modernisms, this class uses readings in literary theory and criticism to interrogate and refine the terms with which we categorize poetry from the first half of the 20th century. Readings will include Moore, Eliot, Pound, Toomer, Oppen, Rukeyser, Williams, Hughes and others.
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ENGL 144 PO - Psychoanalysis and Literature
CrsNo ENGL144 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2014.
Instructor(s): S. Raff
Considers psychoanalytic conceptions of the unconscious, identity, subjectivity, family, culture, religion and clinical practice with attention to their relevance to the study of literature. Intensive introduction to psychoanalysis followed by an examination of psychoanalytic theories of reading. Work by Freud, Lacan, Winnicott and others. Short literary texts may include Hoffmann, Gogol, Poe, Flaubert, James and Kafka.
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ENGL 146 PO - Modernist Poetry
CrsNo ENGL146 PO
When Offered: Fall 2014.
Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk
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ENGL 147 PO - Contemporary Critical Theory
CrsNo ENGL147 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2012.
Instructor(s): P. Mann
Introduction to the tasks and problems of contemporary literary theory. Readings drawn primarily from structuralism and poststructuralism.
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ENGL 148 PO - Literary Theory, Ancient and Modern
CrsNo ENGL148 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2015.
Instructor(s): P. Mann
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ENGL 149 PO - Korea’s IMF-Crisis Cinema
CrsNo ENGL149 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2013.
Instructor(s): J.Jeon
This course examines the remarkable moment of Korean Cinema in the decade following the so-called International Monetary Fund Crisis in South Korea which began in 1997. Global in orientation, the films of the period not only help make sense of the changing economic climate in the region, but also offer insight into the operations and effects of neoliberal economics worldwide. To this end, this class will consider the formal, artistic, and narrative aspects of filmmaking in relation to the geopolitical social contexts they engage. Students in the course will attend a weekly required screening and read theoretical texts that will give critical context to the films. All films have English subtitles; neither language background nor familiarity with Asian cinema is required. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 151 PO - Topics in Medieval Lit and Culture
CrsNo ENGL151 PO
When Offered: Fall 2013.
An exploration of literary culture in England and continental Europe, with an emphasis on the ways that literature interacts with political, religious and economic forces. Special topics vary from year to year. Course may be retaken for credit with instructor’s permission.
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ENGL 153 PO - Chaucer and His World
CrsNo ENGL153 PO
When Offered: Fall 2014.
Instructor(s): Staff
Poetry and prose, fact and fiction, piety and porno (or just about) — Chaucer wrote it all. We will learn Middle English, get familiar with one of the cornerstones of English literature and examine timeless issues like imperialism, gender roles and class warfare.
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ENGL 154 PO - Shakespeare: The Comedies and Histories
CrsNo ENGL154 PO
When Offered: Spring 2014.
Instructor(s): Staff
An examination of Shakespeare’s earlier plays. Emphasis on the formal, religious and political significance of love, sex and marriage in the comedies. Consideration of various uses and modes of history writing, as well as intersections between religion and politics (political theology) in the histories.
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ENGL 155 PO - Shakespeare: The Tragedies and Romances
CrsNo ENGL155 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2014.
Instructor(s): Staff
An examination of Shakespeare’s later plays, with emphasis on traditional and newly emerging ideas about political, religious and gender relationships, including the analogy between family and state and alternative notions of contract and consent. The course considers how the literary genres of tragedy and romance can perform political critique and imagine political reform.
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ENGL 156 PO - Milton and Visual Culture
CrsNo ENGL156 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): A. Kunin
Milton’s poetry and prose in the context of visual culture: primacy and shame of the visible; blindness; iconoclasm; and “dissociation of sensibility.” Some attention to theories of image-making in other early modern poetry, painting, fashion and design. Letter grade only.
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ENGL 158 PO - Jane Austen
CrsNo ENGL158 PO
When Offered: Spring 2014.
Instructor(s): S. Raff
Austen’s novels and related texts, with attention to Austen’s place in literary tradition.
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ENGL 161 PO - James Joyce
CrsNo ENGL161 PO
When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): K. Dettmar
Examinations of Joyce’s works: Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Exiles and Ulysses. Close reading of the texts and consideration of aspects of Joyce’s personal background, relation to previous literary history and great influence upon contemporary literature.
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ENGL 162 SC - Race and Ethnicity in 19th-Century American Literature
CrsNo ENGL162 SC
See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 165 SC - Contemporary American Graphic Novels
CrsNo ENGL165 SC
See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 166 AF - James Baldwin
CrsNo ENGL166 AF
Instructor(s): V. Thomas
This course explores the work of one of America’s greatest writers whose importance resides in part in his calling into question national practices and injustices in regards to race, sexuality, religion, civil rights struggles and other political matters. Baldwin was a frequent expatriate with an enormous literary talent for capturing the pathos of being American across a range of social identities and issues. Also examines the themes and nuances of Baldwin’s essays, novels and plays.
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ENGL 166 PZ - Literature, Illness And Disability
CrsNo ENGL166 PZ
See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 170 PO - Advanced Studies Seminar English
CrsNo ENGL170 PO
When Offered: Each semester.
Advanced Studies Seminar. Advanced analysis and writing of an extended research paper. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO and, for English majors, approval of the major path proposal. English majors taking a second 170-series seminar for completion of the senior exercise must also enroll in ENGL 190 PO , Senior Exercise/Seminar Option.
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ENGL 170B PO - Dickens and the Role of the Author
CrsNo ENGL170B PO
When Offered: Spring 2014.
Instructor(s): S.Raff
Close study of David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Our Mutual Friend, with attention to their adumbrations of author/reader relations and their rich reception in literary criticism and theory, Topics include law and literature, theories of realism, and Charles Dickens’s visibility among his contemporaries as performer, stage-manager, and creator of popular culture. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only.
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ENGL 170D PO - Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
CrsNo ENGL170D PO
When Offered: Fall 2013.
Instructor(s): K.Tompkins
This research-intensive senior seminar will read Herman Melville’s masterpiece Moby Dick across the space of one semester, alongside critical theory, primary materials related to the history of whaling, exploration and America literature and history. We will also reason some of Melville’s shorter fiction. Students will produce a 30-35 page paper as well as organize a small day-long conference on the novel as which each student will present a short paper. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO .
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ENGL 170G PO - Shakespeare Seminar
CrsNo ENGL170G PO
When Offered: Fall 2014.
Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
We will spend the entire semester studying a single play by Shakespeare, working that play from the full variety of critical angles and concerns available to us, including a range of literary and theatrical paradigms. The play will also serve as an index to a history of the early modern period, its central questions and its tentative answers. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only.
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ENGL 170I PO - Tragedy and Philosophy
CrsNo ENGL170I PO
When Offered: Spring 2015.
Instructor(s): P. Mann
Advanced analysis and research. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
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ENGL 170K PO - The Canterbury Tales
CrsNo ENGL170K PO
When Offered: Spring 2014.
Instructor(s): J.Kirk
Intensive study of Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Canterbury Tales. Advanced analysis of the poem, research into its modern interpretations, introduction to Middle English. Chaucer’s poem will also serve us as a master text as we inquire more generally into the intellectual culture of the Middle Ages. With special emphasis on the dirty jokes. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only.
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ENGL 170M PO - Irony in the Public Sphere
CrsNo ENGL170M PO
When Offered: Fall 2015.
Instructor(s): K. Dettmar
Since the 1830s, two parallel developments in irony have combined to create the kinds of large-scale public misreading of irony seen in countless contemporary examples. We’ll survey the state of irony theory, as well as the current and past states of ironic practice, striving to complicate the traditional understanding of irony. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
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ENGL 170P PO - Early Modern Environments
CrsNo ENGL170P PO
When Offered: Fall 2013.
Instructor(s): C. Winiarski
This course will consider the shifting boundaries between animal and human, nature and culture, wilderness and city in Early Modern literature, philosophy, and travel writing. We will consider the potential roots—or rhizomes—of modern environmentalism in the Early Modern period as well as the recent transplanting of ecocriticism into Early Modern studies. Readings from Shakespeare, Raleigh, Wroth, Donne, Marvell, Milton, Cavendish, Aristotle, and Montaigne. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO .
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ENGL 170Q PO - Wordsworth and Proust
CrsNo ENGL170Q PO
When Offered: Fall 2014.
Instructor(s): A. Reed
Advanced analysis and research. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO .
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ENGL 170R PO - Literary Worlding
CrsNo ENGL170R PO
When Offered: Fall 2014.
Instructor(s): J. Jeon
This course examines contemporary literary representations of the world in planetary terms, which we will read alongside prevalent theoretical models designed to make sense of the increasingly complex global circuits of exchange, shifting affiliations, and emergent conflicts that characterize our world today. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO .
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ENGL 170Y PO - Metaphysical Poets
CrsNo ENGL170Y PO
When Offered: Last offered fall 2012.
Instructor(s): A. Kunin
Intensive study of the religious and erotic lyrics of the 17th-century Metaphysical poets. Some attention to their influence on modernist poetry and criticism. Serious consideration of exchanges between poetry and speculative philosophy. Readings will include poems by Donne, Herbert, Philips, Cowley, Hutchinson, Crashaw, Vaughan, Marvell, Traherne and Finch. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
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ENGL 174 SC - Contemporary Women Writers
CrsNo ENGL174 SC
See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 176 SC - Southern Women Writers
CrsNo ENGL176 SC
See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 180 SC - Asian American Fiction
CrsNo ENGL180 SC
See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 183 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality
CrsNo ENGL183 SC
See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 183A PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
CrsNo ENGL183A PO
When Offered: Each spring.
Instructor(s): J. Lethem
Student’s own work is principal content of the course; class meets weekly to read and discuss it. Occasionally other readings. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission. ENGL 064A PO strongly recommended. May be repeated for credit. ENGL183A PO: Fiction. ENGL 183B PO: Poetry. ENGL 183C PO: Screenwriting. ENGL 183D PO: The Literary Essay.
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ENGL 183B PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
CrsNo ENGL183B PO
When Offered: Each spring.
Instructor(s): C. Rankine
Student’s own work is principal content of the course; class meets weekly to read and discuss it. Occasionally other readings. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission. ENGL 064B PO strongly recommended. May be repeated for credit. ENGL 183A PO: Fiction. ENGL183B PO: Poetry. ENGL 183C PO: Screenwriting. ENGL 183D PO: The Literary Essay.
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ENGL 184 PO - New Poetics
CrsNo ENGL184 PO
When Offered: Spring 2014.
Instructor(s): C. Rankine
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ENGL 187 SC - Study of a Major Author
CrsNo ENGL187 SC
See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 189A SC - American Film: Ford, Capra, Hitchcock
CrsNo ENGL189A SC
See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 189B SC - American Film: Welles, Sturges, Lang
CrsNo ENGL189B SC
See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 189C SC - Fifties Film: Pop Culture Society
CrsNo ENGL189C SC
See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 189D SC - Genre: The Art Film
CrsNo ENGL189D SC
See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
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ENGL 189J PO - Topics in Asian American Literature
CrsNo ENGL189J PO
When Offered: Fall 2014.
Instructor(s): J. Jeon
Topics in Asian American Literature. To be announced.
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ENGL 190 PO - Senior Exercise/Seminar Option
CrsNo ENGL190 PO
When Offered: Each semester.
Instructor(s): K. Dettmar
Students electing this option take a second 170-series Advanced Studies Seminar to satisfy the senior exercise requirement. A grade and credit are assigned for the 170 seminar; enrollment in 190 confers no credit but will receive one of the following designations: No credit, pass or distinction. Students must receive at least a C-minus in the Advanced Studies Seminar in order to receive a pass in ENGL 190.
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ENGL 191 PO - Senior Thesis
CrsNo ENGL191 PO
When Offered: Each semester.
Instructor(s): K. Dettmar
Students choosing this option enroll both semesters of the senior year. A grade will be assigned for the fall semester based upon the completion of a chapter of thesis (or approximately 20 to 25 pages of writing toward the thesis) and for the spring semester upon completion of the thesis. Eligibility based on grade point average and permission of the department
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ENGL 195 PO - Literary Criticism: Advanced Methods
CrsNo ENGL195 PO
When Offered: Each fall.
Instructor(s): K.Dettmar
An advanced seminar in the research methods characteristic of literary criticism, this class will revolve around the questions and challenges raised by student thesis projects: what kind of knowledge does literary scholarship aim to produce? What is the relationship between literary studies and the methods and theories of other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences? P/NC only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO and any ENGL 170 PO . ENGL 170 PO may be taken concurrently.
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ENGL 199DRPO - English: Directed Readings
CrsNo ENGL199DRPO
When Offered: Each semester.
Instructor(s): Staff
Syllabus reflects workload of a standard course in the department or program. Examinations or papers equivalent to a standard course. Regular interaction with the faculty supervisor. Weekly meetings are the norm. Available for full- or half-course credit.
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ENGL 199IRPO - English: Independent Research
CrsNo ENGL199IRPO
When Offered: Each semester.
Instructor(s): Staff
A substantial and significant piece of original research or creative product produced. Pre-requisite course work required. Available for full- or half-course credit.
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ENGL 199RAPO - English: Research Assistantship
CrsNo ENGL199RAPO
When Offered: Each semester.
Instructor(s): Staff
Lab notebook, research summary or other product appropriate to the discipline is required. Half-course credit only.
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ENGL 406 CG - American Literature and Political Theory
CrsNo ENGL406 CG
See the Claremont Graduate University catalog for a description of this course.
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EA 010 PO - Intro to Environmental Analysis
CrsNo EA 010 PO
When Offered: Each semester.
Instructor(s): R. Hazlett; B. Cutter
An EAP introductory core course. Examines the history of environmental change over the past century, the environmental ramifications of economic and technological decisions, lifestyles and personal choice and the need to evaluate environmental arguments critically. (Taught at Pitzer and Pomona).
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